shaymiller
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How can I scrape YouTube using simple dom w/o api?
can someone post code on php?
can someone post code on php?
How to scrape YouTube w/o api
- Thread starter shaymiller
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- Aug 9, 2017
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If you're finding it hard to scrape YT or are getting blocked there are alternative YT front ends that you can scrape for the same information. Look at the Invidious instances: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
You can also trawl through the Invidious code on github and see how they do their YT parsing: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
You can also trawl through the Invidious code on github and see how they do their YT parsing: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
El-Cherubin
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- Nov 30, 2008
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Hello,
What do you want to scrape ?
You can use solution like Selenium, Pupeteer or Zennoposter to emulate browser & actions.
What do you want to scrape ?
You can use solution like Selenium, Pupeteer or Zennoposter to emulate browser & actions.
shaymiller
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- Dec 3, 2016
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Search results, videos only. I don’t need comments, likes etc
can this be done with php?
TomTheCat
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- Oct 27, 2019
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Yes it can be done with just PHP. You have to make a POST request with the keywords as parameter to this link:
Code:
https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/search?key=[KEY]&prettyPrint=falsethen you have to parse the response and get the data you need. You will still need an API key (generated automatically when you visit YouTube).
El-Cherubin
Newbie
- Nov 30, 2008
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Thanks TomTheCat, will be usuefull this API. Do you have one for Google Search result too? 